Rashmi Singh

Rashmi Singh is an aspiring journalist of Live India news channel. She came into limelight when she conducted a fake sting operation. In the sting conducted by local news channel Live India on a government school teacher August 31 2007. Rashmi Singh had posed as a schoolgirl alleging Uma Khurana, a teacher at the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya School in Delhi, pushed her and other girls into prostitution.

On September 7 2007, She was charged with cheating, fabricating evidence and conspiracy, and was detained by the Delhi Police.

Uma Khurana, a mathematics teacher of the school, was arrested on August 31 2007 after the channel telecast the sting operation purportedly showing that she was running a syndicate of making pornographic films featuring her present and former girl students. The teacher was attacked by the mob and she was sacked from her job.

Editor-in-Chief of "The Pioneer" Chandan Mitra said "This is what gives sting operations a bad name. Stings have done so much good by exposing corruption but incidents like these will only give a chance to those looking to put more regulation in place for the media."

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